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K.C. Fung Home  Directory K.C. Fung
| Education History | |
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Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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International trade and economies of East Asia. |
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K.C. Fung is a co-founder of SCCIE and Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So far, he has supervised 11 UCSC Ph.D. students. His research areas are in international trade and finance, trade policies, multinational corporations, the WTO and the economics of the Asia/Pacific. He has done influential work on trade and network, trade policies under imperfect competition and the Japanese keiretsu. He has also made substantial contributions to the international economics of China. His work includes the correct measurement of the U.S.-China bilateral trade balance, estimation of the domestic value added and foreign content of Chinese exports as well as trade and investment relationships between China and the United States, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe. He has also contributed to the economics of production sharing and trade in parts and components.
Fung was a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisors in both the Bush I and the Clinton administrations and he received a letter of commendation from the U.S. President. He was a U.S. government delegate to the OEDC and was an advisor and academic collaborator at the United States International Trade Commission (USITC).
He was a Senior Research Fellow at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and a consultant to the World Bank, the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI, Tokyo), the Asian Development Bank (Manila) and BBVA. He partnered with the WTO and trained senior government officials from thirty-one countries. He also provided management training to senior executives associated with Alcatel and UTStarcom.
He has taught at Stanford University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mount Holyoke College and the University of Hong Kong. At Stanford, he taught a Ph.D. course on trade theory. He was tenured at Mount Holyoke College and he was a visiting scholar/researcher at the University of Tokyo (Japan), Bruegel (Brussels), Tilburg University (Netherlands), The Bank of Finland (Helsinki), Chung Hua Institution of Economic Research (Taiwan) and the National University of Singapore. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Hong Kong Institute of Economics and Business Strategy (HIEBS), an Associate Director of the Hong Kong Centre for Economic Research (HKCER) and was an academic consultant to the University of Barcelona, Spain. |
| Selected Publications | |
Fung, K.C. (Guest Editors with Robert M. Stern), "The Economics of the WTO and the Developing Countries", Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, forthcoming, 2010.
Fund, K.C. "The Political Economy of Strategic Trade Policies", (with Chelsea C. Lin and Ray-Yun Chang) Review of International Economics, forthcoming, 2009.
Fung, K.C. (with Busakorn Chantasasawat, Hitomi Iizaka and Alan Siu) "FDI Flows to Latin America, East and Southeast Asia and China: Substitutes or Complements?" Review of Development Economics, forthcoming, 2010.
Fung, K.C. (with Andrea M. Maechler), "Trade Liberalization and the Environment: The Case of Intra-Industry Trade", Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, v.16, No.1, pp.53-69, March 2007.
Fung, K.C. (with Robert E. Baldwin and Alan Siu), "Introduction: Economics of The Doha Round and the WTO", Pacific Economic Review, Guest Editors: Robert E. Baldwin, K.C. Fung and Alan Siu, 12:3, pp.249-252, 2007.
Fung, K.C. (with Alicia Garcia-Herrero, Hitomi Iizaka and Alan Siu), "Hard or Soft? Institutional Reforms and Infrastucture Spending as Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in China", Japanese Economic Review, Vol.56, No.4, pp.408-416, 2005.
Fung, K.C. (with Lawrence J. Lau and Joseph Lee). U.S. Direct Investment in China, AEI Press, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, D.C., with Foreword by George P. Shultz, former U.S. Secretary of State, 2004.
Fung, K.C. (with Hitomi Iizaka and Stephen Parker). "Determinants of U.S. and Japanese Direct Investment in China," Journal of Comparative Economics, 30, 567-578, 2002.
Fung, K.C. (with Lawrence J. Lau). "New Estimates of the United States-China Bilateral Trade Balances," Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 15, 102-130, 2001.
Fung, K.C. (with Robert Staiger). "Trade Liberalization and Trade Adjustment Assistance," in The New Transatlantic Economy, ed. M.B. Canzoneri, W.J. Ethier, and V. Grilli, CEPR Conference Volume, Cambridge University Press, 265-286, 1996. |
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